Ark Infotech LLC (“Ark”), a global leader in cloud and cybersecurity solutions for the commercial and government markets, is very pleased to announce the acquisition of Vantyr, an innovator in security for non-human identities across cloud and SaaS environments. This comes on the back of Ark’s acquisition of the slauth.io innovative IAM Policy Copilot product in December 2023, further strengthening its position in the cloud and SaaS security market.
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With the acquisition of Vantyr, Ark is also moving into the SaaS security space with key business applications like Salesforce, and further developing its cybersecurity offerings to give tailored protection to one of the most prolific CRM platforms in the world. Vantyr brings very deep knowledge in securing app-to-app connectivity across cloud and SaaS applications and will enable Ark to offer specialized solutions to address specific challenges in integration and data flow management within critical business applications. This acquisition will definitively establish Ark as a leader in delivering further value to clients relying on SaaS applications—ensuring that environments are secure, compliant, and high-performing.
Founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneurs Mark Balovnev, Marek Termanowski, and Mile Oreskovic, Vantyr is based in San Francisco, California. The company offers a differentiated and proprietary solution in SaaS security, focused on safeguarding the app-to-app ecosystem. The platform of Vantyr provides real-time visibility across SaaS environments, helping businesses discover, audit, and protect their SaaS applications from a wide array of possible security threats. This is a platform that integrates key SaaS platforms, including Salesforce, GitHub, and Slack, offering some very important features to clients, including user and integration inventory, risk scoring, data flow mapping, and automated threat remediation.
According to Ark’s President & CEO, Raj Natarajan, “Acquiring Vantyr strengthens our cybersecurity portfolio through the integration of Vantyr’s innovative SaaS security with our existing slauth.io platform. This will significantly enhance our offerings with a comprehensive solution to combat security threats running across clouds and SaaS environments effectively, thus better arming our clients to protect digital assets.”
“Securing SaaS applications is the fastest-growing pain point for businesses of all sizes,” said Mark Balovnev, CEO of Vantyr. “Shadow IT, shadow AI, and app-to-app connections create exponential sprawl of hidden corners, data flows, and security risks. The cutting-edge platform that we have built at Vantyr is a perfect complement to Ark’s cloud and SaaS security platform, and we are thrilled to further our shared mission of providing comprehensive and straightforward SaaS security for organizations everywhere.“
Socrates Geetha, CTO at Ark, marked that Vantyr was synergistic to slauth.io: “The focus of Vantyr on non-human identities and app-to-app security just fits perfectly with the IAM capabilities of slauth.io,” he said. “We will thus be able to offer an end-to-end security solution for access management and protection of data flows within SaaS environments.”
On his part, Marek Termanowski, CPO of Vantyr, added, “The mission of Vantyr has always been to provide deep visibility, lifecycle management, and security for complex SaaS environments. Now, having added the strongly positioned cloud and IAM solutions from Ark, we will be poised to deliver even more impactful security capabilities that keep our customers ahead of any potential threat.”
The acquisition of Vantyr by Ark is likely to seal its leadership in the cybersecurity space through the unique safeguarding of cloud and SaaS applications worldwide. Joining advanced Vantyr technology, Ark Slauth.io is partnering to help organizations protect their most prized digital assets to win in business.
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